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Showing Original Post only (View all)The willful race based destruction of a generation of kids [View all]
Last edited Mon Aug 17, 2015, 10:11 AM - Edit history (1)
One fateful decision. Years of neglect.
Five once-average schools remade into the worst in Florida.
FAILURE FACTORIES
By CARA FITZPATRICK, LISA GARTNER and MICHAEL LaFORGIA
Photographs by DIRK SHADD
Times Staff
In just eight years, Pinellas County School Board members turned five schools in the countys black neighborhoods into some of the worst in Florida.
First they abandoned integration, leaving the schools overwhelmingly poor and black.
Then they broke promises of more money and resources.
Then as black children started failing at outrageous rates, as overstressed teachers walked off the job, as middle class families fled en masse the board stood by and did nothing.
Today thousands of children are paying the price, a Tampa Bay Times investigation has found.
They are trapped at Campbell Park, Fairmount Park, Lakewood, Maximo and Melrose five neighborhood elementary schools that the board has transformed into failure factories.
Every year, they turn out a staggering number of children who dont know the basics.
Eight in 10 fail reading, according to state standardized test scores. Nine in 10 fail math.
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http://www.tampabay.com/projects/2015/investigations/pinellas-failure-factories/5-schools-segregation/
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The "feds" stepped in years ago...the district has been under court orders for a long time.
Sancho
Aug 2015
#16
"Yet, when contacted by the Times, board members distorted facts, pleaded ignorance or said they
Brickbat
Aug 2015
#21
Jeb needs to be fitted for a sandwich board with this message painted on it.
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2015
#42
yes. you and everyone here really needs to read the series of articles at the link
cali
Aug 2015
#49
i loved my integrated magnet grade school. i always gravitated to making friends w/ the black kids.
pansypoo53219
Aug 2015
#63
"thousands of children are paying the price" < No, we are all paying the price. n/t
jtuck004
Aug 2015
#65
Ah, but at the Republican debate they all insisted the feds should stay out of setting standards.
tclambert
Aug 2015
#68
If you support the Wall Street status quo, it will only get worse. This is capitalism
rhett o rick
Aug 2015
#75
Pinellas is a swing county, not sure I would call it a Liberal bastion. The city of St. Pete is
stevenleser
Aug 2015
#86
The school board members probably have heavy investments in for-profit prisons.
valerief
Aug 2015
#81